. . . around some twisty mountain passes in Greece.
Looks like those guys have done that a few times before. That articulating trailer must have been designed specially for those roads.
Peter
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I've seen some monstrous stuff on the highway, but nothing THAT big yet.
Wow... THAT is impressive!
Do you think that they ran a full size / light weight mock up over the route just to see if it would fit?
http://sbiii.com/roadload.html#roadschn
http://www.jsupor.com/Heavy-Hauling.aspx
for photos of similar rigs
I watched a program on NHK where they were getting the bits of a windfarm up a similarly twisty road. I suspect the loads were lighter but of similar length and they had, amongst other things, tunnels to navigate. They definitely had a custom machine to do the work because it could raise and lower the load so as to pass over/under various obstacles. And yes they did model it in advance, and they got the power company to take down a couple of electricity poles for the night etc.
This is the sort of delivery that would be ideally served from a heavy lift airship. The problem of course is that it would be a nightmare handling the unloading in a controlled fashion so that the airship didn't hurtle skywards
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